milst1

I booked a EWR-AMS flight for later today on Delta.com. It's a Northwest flight operated by Delta. When I went to check in yesterday on Delta.com, it would not let me check in and said I should check in at the gate. It said "NSA", no seat assignment.

On the booking class, it said U for my first leg (AMS-JFK), and V for the EWR-AMS leg.

The Delta fare chart at http://www.cwsi.net/delta.htm shows V class as First/Business Elite via segment on domestic, and NA for international.

How can I have booked a V booking class fare on an international flight and what does it mean?

Thanks.

ikvliegveel

it has to do with classmapping
V class equals U = Discounted economy fare ( often promo fare )

Did u book any codeshare? KL / AF ?

avidflyer

Exactly.

VIB

Since it's a Northwest flight number (even though the aircraft is operated by Delta), you need to look at the Northwest fare chart. This shows that V is a discounted economy fare class. I think it's at the bottom of the discounted fare levels, equivalent to a Delta U or maybe even T class.

mnbp

If the flight number is "NW nnn" on your ticket, then NW fare codes apply, not DL. For DL flights, "U" is a discounted coach class code, and for NW flights, "V" is a discounted coach class code. Even more confusingly, it does not matter who actually operates the flight, what matters is who's flight number is on your ticket. If you really have a ticket on "NW nnn", then you should be able to view your flight on nwa.com and probably select your seat there as well, unless the flight is oversold and no seats are available.

This is one more piece of trivia that will not matter after inventory cutover (which is speculated on this site to be planned for 1/31 or 2/1 depending on who's postings on this site are right) after which every Delta flight will be located in one computer system and there won't be any more NW flights to confuse us all.